Comic History of England

.D., let us take him forward from the foundation of the En

gs of Wessex, reigned

ntry was invaded by

who treated the Anglo-

treated the

rp enough to cut a hair. They at first came in the capacity of pirates,-sliding stealthily into isolated coast settlements on Saturday evening and eating up

ng, "being given more to religious exercises than reigning," says the historian. He would often exhibit his piety in order to draw attention away from His Royal Incompetency. He was not the first or last to smother the call

e to prevent a hold-up upon the island of Thanet, and afterwa

855). He was gone a year, during which time very little reigning was done at

though he had no hair apparent), who did not recognize the old gentleman or allow him to be seated on his own throne when he came back; but Ethelwolf gave the naughty Ethelbald the western half of the kingdom rather tha

s and killed Edmund, the good king of East Anglia, who was aft

ucation, and was a great admirer of Dickens and Tha

nd the sedentary life on a big white-oak throne. On the n

wearing heavy woollen clothes and introducing

accept such portions of the country as were assigned them, but they were never known

heir wit's end, and have never been able to

erably trying to pronounce the name

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swamps of Somersetshire, where he made his head-quarters on account of its inaccessibility, and then he made rai

, where he was introduced to Guthrun and was invited to a banquet, where he told several new anecdotes, and spoke in such a humorous way that the army was sorry

sence of the hostess he got to thinking of esoteric subjects, or something profound, and allowed the cakes to bur

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nes got immersed. Thus the national antagonism to water was overcome, and to-day t

lement along the exposed portion of Great Britain, by which they became u

peasantry to shut up their unicorns during certain seasons of the year and keep them out of the crops, also protecting them from sportsmen while shedding their horns in spring, or moultin

d greatly lamented. He was a brave soldier, a successful all-around monarch, and a progressive ci

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nd years later, of borrowing the scholars of other nations, and cheerfully adopting the improvements of other countries, instead of following the hide-

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